Likud cutting off nose to spite face

Renewing the law for Judea and Samaria [Jewish] residents to be treated as equal citizens for another five years is supposed to happen, but in this crazy coalition we have no idea if it will or wont. And the Opposition should be supporting the bill, as it is a consensus bill and they have supported it int he past and bills like these are generally supported by the Opposition, but they are making sounds of not supporting it so they can try to collapse the government. 

Interestingly, if the bill does not pass, one of the ways Judea and Samaria residents will be affected is by not being allowed to vote in upcoming elections. 

If the government falls because the Opposition refuses to support the bill and we go to new elections, we could very well see a scenario in which we go to new elections but hundreds of thousands of residents of Judea and Samaria will not be able to vote, thus taking away hundreds of thousands of votes from the Likud and from Smotritch and Ben Gvir and even some from the Haredi parties. 

I would think that it would be in the interest of the Likud and the other Opposition parties to support this bill. If they do not, it will directly impact their ability to win the next elections they wish to bring about.

I am not sure how this law exactly works. Justice Minister Gideon Saar said earlier today that even if it will not pass he will make sure they are able to vote. If the law does not allow them to I am not sure what his workaround would be, so maybe the law has some built in workarounds. I dont know but it seems like a funny scenario that could come out of the Likud's continued refusal to support. The Likud might very well be biting the hand that feeds it. It might be cutting off its nose to spite its face.

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